Cinematography: Arthur L. Todd

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Arthur L. Todd. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Girl Missing

1933 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Glenda Farrell · Ben Lyon · Mary Brian · Lyle Talbot

Plot Two sassy gold-diggers stranded in Palm Beach become involved in the case of a fellow chorine who goes missing on her wedding night.

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The Cheerful Fraud

1926 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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The Angels Wash Their Faces

1939 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Ann Sheridan · Billy Halop · Bernard Punsly · Leo Gorcey

Plot A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local...

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Torchy Gets Her Man

1938 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction William Beaudine

Cast Glenda Farrell · Barton MacLane · Tom Kennedy · Willard Robertson

Plot Notorious counterfeiter "100 Dollar Bill" Bailey has eluded police capture for fifteen years while passing off his signature C-notes. He brazenly passes himself off as Secret Service agent Charles Mitchell...

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The Singing Marine

1937 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Dick Powell · Doris Weston · Lee Dixon · Hugh Herbert

Plot Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest....

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He Couldn't Say No

1938 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Frank McHugh · Jane Wyman · Cora Witherspoon · Diana Lewis

Plot Office clerk Lambert T. Hunkins gets a ten-dollar raise and his girlfriend, Violet Coney, and her mother learn that he has also some money saved, and decide it is time...

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Betsy Ross

1917 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction George Cowl · Travers Vale

Cast Alice Brady · John Bowers · Lillian Cook · Victor Kennard

Plot Revolutionary War heroine Betsy Ross finds herself in competition with her sister for the affections of a British soldier.

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You're in the Army Now

1941 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Jimmy Durante · Phil Silvers · Jane Wyman · Regis Toomey

Plot Vacuum-cleaner salesmen Homer "Jeeter" Smith and "Breezy" Jones are accidentally inducted into the army, and "Jeeter", who can sell anything, immediately begins to try and convince, Colonel Dobson, their cavalry...

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Alibi Ike

1935 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Joe E. Brown · Olivia de Havilland · Ruth Donnelly · Roscoe Karns

Plot Rookie pitcher Francis "Ike" Farrell comes seemingly out of nowhere to help the Cubs go for the pennant. His idiosyncratic ways, which include excuses and alibis for everything, drive his...

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Big Hearted Herbert

1934 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast Aline MacMahon · Guy Kibbee · Patricia Ellis · Helen Lowell

Plot Herbert Kalness (Guy Kibbee) is an opinionated man and a huge grouch, but his loving family puts up with him. Herbert is upset when daughter Alice (Patricia Ellis) becomes engaged...

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River's End

1940 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Dennis Morgan · Elizabeth Earl · George Tobias · Victor Jory

Plot Convicted murderer John Keith (Dennis Morgan), escapes from his guards, and is pursued by Sergeant Conniston (Dennis Morgan, of the Royal Canadian Mouted Police. After a two year hunt, Conniston...

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The Great Mr. Nobody

1941 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Benjamin Stoloff

Cast Eddie Albert · Joan Leslie · Alan Hale · William Lundigan

Plot Perpetual-optimist "Dreamy" Smith aspires to quit his job as newspaper publicity drudge and sail the world. But life--and his editor--conspires against him. Not only does the car he intends using...

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The Whip

1917 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Maurice Tourneur

Cast Alma Hanlon · June Elvidge · Irving Cummings · Warren Cook

Plot The story of the training of a racehorse, the Whip, of the amnesiac nobleman who loves the horse, and of the villains who attempt to keep it from racing.

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The Murder of Dr. Harrigan

1936 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Frank McDonald

Cast Ricardo Cortez · Kay Linaker · John Eldredge · Mary Astor

Plot Crotchety hospital administrator Peter Melady, self-proclaimed developer of a new wonder anaesthetic, is about to undergo a delicate operation to be performed by the glib Dr. Leo Harrigan, Melady's longtime...

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Wild Horse Mesa

1932 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Randolph Scott · Sally Blane · Fred Kohler · Lucille La Verne

Plot Chane Weymer (Randolph Scott), an Arizona rancher goes after a gang that is trapping and catching wild horses by the use of barbed-wire enclosures. He suspects Ward (Fred Kohler), of...

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Back in Circulation

1937 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Pat O'Brien · Joan Blondell · Margaret Lindsay · John Litel

Plot Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that...

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Loose Ankles

1930 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Ted Wilde

Cast Loretta Young · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Louise Fazenda · Otis Harlan

Plot In this light romantic comedy, 17-year old Loretta Young is cast as Ann Harper, a wealthy socialite who has inherited a fortune provided the family is involved no scandals appearing...

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Red Hot Tires

1935 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction D. Ross Lederman

Cast Lyle Talbot · Mary Astor · Roscoe Karns · Frankie Darro

Plot Red Hot Tires is a 1935 American crime drama film produced and distributed by Warner Bros., directed by D. Ross Lederman, and starring Lyle Talbot and Mary Astor.

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The Florentine Dagger

1935 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Donald Woods · Margaret Lindsay · C. Aubrey Smith · Henry O'Neill

Plot Juan Cesare, a descendant of the Borgia's of Vienna, thinks he may have a murder streak in him acquired from his long-dead relatives, is is love with Florence Ballau, but...

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The Smiling Ghost

1941 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Wayne Morris · Brenda Marshall · Alexis Smith · Alan Hale

Plot Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But...

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